the renewed city.

in order to plan for more walkable environments, methods are required that allow planners and decision-makers to effectively identify and assess the elements of the built environment that support or detract from walking. the existing pedestrian levelof-service methodology is critiqued in this paper and demonstrated to be an inappropriate tool to assess the pedestrian environment. a more accurate and sensitive tool would incorporate and account for the various micro-scale environmental factors that define the walking environment. to improve existing assessment processes, municipalities will be required to identify what elements need to be measured, how to measure these elements and, finally, incorporating them into an appropriate assessment framework. the literature and progressive practical examples like the Fort Collins pedestrian LOS methodology provide a framework for how to develop an appropriate tool.